Richard Myers

Richard Myers

Richard Myers is a writer, analyst, conference speaker and consultant on policy and strategy, specializing in energy and environmental policy. He has spent over 40 years working at the intersection of politics, technology, policy, economics, regulation and finance. Myers spent almost 30 years with the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), the last 10 as vice president of policy and planning. Before that, he worked for almost 15 years as a reporter and editor with The Energy Daily. Myers has a unique combination of journalistic and corporate experience, extensive experience with a wide range of policy issues and political matters, and a broad base of knowledge across the entire energy business. He has organized and managed legislative campaigns, developed policy initiatives to address industry challenges, and directed public affairs and advocacy efforts. He is well-known and well-regarded for his communications skill, for his ability to take complex subjects and express them in simple straightforward conversational prose, and for his habit of challenging the conventional wisdom.

Myers has extensive experience with a wide range of policy issues and political matters, including:

Legislation

restructuring of the electricity industry and the emergence of merchant nuclear generators

worked with congressional staff and the electric industry on the 2003 Energy Policy Act, which was not enacted, and the 2005 Energy Policy Act, which was